Venue: Abbeystrewry Church Time: 8.30pm Date: Tuesday 26th July Ticket Price: €12 Buy Tickets Prices include reservation supplement (€1.00/ticket). 1 Ticket €13.00 2 Tickets €26.00 3 Tickets €39.00 4 Tickets €52.00 5 Tickets €65.00 On Tuesday 26th July, the Cór Ban Cúil Aodha, A Traditional Gaelic Women’s Choir and The Cronin Sisters will be performing. Cór Ban Cúil Aodha – Traditional Gaelic Women’s Choir Peadar Ó Riada formed this choir in 1985 as he felt that the female creative energy [...]
The play, The Tinker’s Curse will be performed at Skibbereen’s Town Hall on Thursday 28th July. A brief synopsis of the play: Having climbed Croagh Patrick to leave rosary beads and a memorial card in St .Patrick’s care, Mikey embarks on a rambling account of his life as a Traveller and his experiences on Irelands roads. In a monologue tinged with tragedy Mikey details the early death of his son, his wife Julia’s vain struggle to cope, and the horror [...]
Venue: Abbeystrewry Church Time: 8.30pm Date: Friday 22nd July Ticket Price: €15 The Dublin Guitar Quartet will perform contemporary music exclusively for The Skibbereen Arts Festival on Friday 22nd July 2011. Their Concerts include a mix of celebrated works of the guitar quartet repertoire and modern classics by a range of internationally acclaimed composers such Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part. In addition, the quartet are also committed to performing new Irish works. In 2008, composer Philip [...]
Venue: Abbeystrewry Church Time: 8.30pm Date: Saturday 30th July Ticket Price: €20 On Saturday 30th July, when Scullion take to the stage, it will be three decades on from their formative gigs together. Scullion’s signature sound is as strong as ever and the voices of Sonny Condell and Philip King have taken on a seamless harmony, pinioned by the bravura guitar playing of Robbie Overson, who has ably filled the role of founding member Greg Boland. They’ve remained loyal to [...]
Venue: Abbeystrewry Church Time: 8pm Date: Sunday 24th July Ticket Price: €20 Canon James Goodman, Pastor, Preacher, Poet and Professor, church builder and collector of Irish music was a true Irish Renaissance man but it’s the vast collection of tunes that he transcribed from Thomas Kennedy which he will be most remembered for. At age 30 he learned to play the uileann pipes and commenced his great collection of Irish music, contained in 4 volumes and now housed in the [...]
Time: 11am Date: Sunday 24th July Ticket Price: €25 (Places are limited so booking is essential. Contact the Box Office for booking information. Suitable for ‘handy’ or better players.) Arty McGlynn is probably the most infl uential guitarist in traditional Irish music. A native of Omagh in County Tyrone, he started out playing in the Showband era of the ‘60s but by the mid ‘70s he began to focus his attention on the very different world of traditional Irish music. [...]
Time: 11am (Places are limited so booking is essential. Contact the Box Office for booking information) Date: Saturday 30th July Ticket Price: €10 Conor Horgan began his career as a photographer, then directed over 70 TV commercials and pop videos before moving on to write and direct drama and documentary films. His debut feature fi lm One Hundred Mornings received its US premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, was released across Ireland during May 2011, and was described as “one [...]
Venue: Skibbereen Town Hall Time: 8.30pm Date: Thursday 28th July Ticket Price: €8 A trip down memory lane. The late ‘80s and ‘90s proved to be a golden era for West Cork football. In good times and bad, quality football has been a constant and life-long bonds are made and kept from lining out together for club and school. Following on from last year’s very successful archive screening night, this year we are concentrating on two classic football matches associated [...]
Poetry Reading Venue: The Time Traveller’s Bookshop Time: 6pm Date: Saturday 30th July Ticket Price: €10 (limited places – see below) Poetry Workshop: Time: 11am Date: Saturday 30th July Ticket Price: €25 (limited to 10 places – see below for more details) “It is remembrance /that allows us / little by little / to forget.” Michael Coady was born in 1939 in Carrickon-Suir, County Tipperary, where he has worked as a teacher, musician and writer. Winner of the Patrick Kavanagh [...]
Venue: Skibbereen Town Hall Time: 8.30pm Date: Wednesday 27th July Ticket Price: €10 Skibbereen Arts Festival is delighted to welcome 3epkano’s Matthew Nolan and Cameron Doyle (electric guitar, omnichord, lap steel) and Si Schroeder’s Bryan O’Connell (drums/percussion) to the Town Hall where they will perform their live soundtrack to the wonderful film Pour la Suite du Monde. In 1962, legendary cinéma vérité fi lmmakers Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault were attracted to Île-aux-Coudres for two reasons: the language of the [...]
